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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILLARD F. ELLIS, OF ATOHISON, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO A. F.MARTIN, OF SAME PLACE.

BRICK FOR VENEERING FRAME HOUSES AND OTHER WOODEN BUILDINGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,930, dated March17, 1885.

Application filed April 21, 1F84. (No lnodel.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MILLARD F. ELLIS,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Atchison, in the county ofAtchison and State 5 of Kansas, have invented certain new and usefulimprovements in bricks for veneering frame houses or other woodenbuildings, and in the mode of securing the veneering brick wall to theframe of the-house or building, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to secure the veneering wall of brick tothe frame of the house or building in such a manner as to allow the saidVeneering wall to finally settle without cracking or becoming detachedfrom the frame. I claim that by its adoption a frame building can beveneered with brick and the veneering wall can settle as much asveneering walls usually7 settle without danger of cracking the said walland without the possibility of its becoming detached from the frame ofthe building.

Heretofore the method of attaching and securing veneering walls of brickto frame buildings has been by spikes driven into the studding at thetop of a certain number of courses of brick, and the neXt course ofbricks laid upon said spikes, and thus they have been built into thewall solid, and the result has been that when the wall settles, as allbrick walls will, either the Wall cracks or the spikes break, and thusthe Wall becomes Wholly detached from the frame.

My object is attained by the peculiar shape of the Veneering bricks andthe method of fastening,which are illustrated by the accompanyingdrawings and explained as follows:

Figure l represents a crosssection of the wall made with these bricksand showing them in position. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of aportion ofthe exterior ot' a building v'eneered with brick according tothis invention. Fig. 3 represents a view'of the upper surface ofthebrick outside of the wall. Fig.

4 represents a perspective view of the brick out of the wall, being thesame length and thickness as ordinary brick.

a a are bricks of this invention laid in Wall. They are made by the sameprocess and from the saine material as the ordinary building, brick, anddiffer from the ordinary bricks only in size'and shape.

bb are ordinary building-brick used in connection with bricks of thisinvention.'

c c are the studding of the fra-ine of the building.

d d are small cleats, of wood, seven-eighths of an inch square, nailedor spiked to outer edge of studding, and over or around which the slotin the brick ffin Figs. Sandc works.

e e are the nails or spikes by which the cleat d is fastened to thestudding c.

fin Figs. 3 and 4 represents a slot in the brick to receive the cleat d,so that when the brick is laid inthe Wall according to this inventionthe cleat d is received into the slotf, and thus the brick is freetomove up or down without being displaced in the Wall, and at the sainetime the slotf, working around the cleat d, eftectually prevents thewall from becoming detached from the frame.

Having thus described my invention, what I desire to claim and secure byLetters Patent 1s l. The peculiar shape of the brick a a for Veneeringpurposes, the same having aslot, f, substantially as described.

2. The method of securing said veneering bricks to the studding or frameof a house or building by means of Wooden cleats d el, nailed to saidframe, over which the slots ff of said veneering bricks fit, and whichhold the wall to the frame ofthe wooden building, substantially as andfor the purpose set forth.

M. F. ELLIS.

Witnesses:

C. FISHER, W. M. NEWELL.

